petersburg and move comes after russian authorities granted temporary asylum to nsa leaker edward snowden. it comes this after the president said this last noit in an interview with jay leno. >> i was disappointed because, you know, even though with we don't have an extradition treaty with them. they still help us on supplying our troops in afghanistan and still helping us on counterterrorism work and they were helpful after the boston bombing but there have been times where they slip back in the cold war thinking and a cold war mentality. >> kristen welker joining me from the white house. some people would interpret this as a diplomatic snub in advance or is this to get putin's attention and maybe things will reverse course by the time the g-20 happens in september? >> reporter: no doubt, thomas, this is a diplomatic snub but white house official say, look. there are other areas of agreement where they can work with russian president putin like afghanistan, for example. this is a diplomatic snub to be sure. the white house has been considering this for quite some time, ever since the sno